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Dressed for Death (Drew Farthering Mystery #4)

Title: Dressed for
Death (Drew Farthering Mystery #4)

Author: Julianna Deering

Pages: 320

Year: 2016

Publisher: Bethany House

Drew Farthering and his wife
Madeline have been married for six months now and have been invited to attend a
Regency gathering at one of his old school mate’s house, Tal Cummins. They arrive with Drew’s best friend Nick and
his love interest Carrie along with Carrie’s young brother Will to find Tal
engaged to Alice. As the week progresses
with all dressed in Regency style and taking part in all sorts of
activities. The story moves along slowly
and about one-third of the way through the first death occurs. The authorities are called in, but Tal asks
Drew to investigate on his own to try to find out the answers. Drew feels the tug of friendship from the
past and agrees, even though he really has no clues to pursue.

Soon another body is discovered
and Drew faces guilt over this death, but Tal continues to press him to put his
detective skills to use. Drew asks some
questions, but seems to make no headway.
However, there is an undercurrent Drew senses and knows there is
something else going on. He sees some
interesting things that might be related, but can’t seem to get any definitive
answers. Yet another death occurs and
Drew feels like giving up, but with Madeline’s encouragement he continues.

I have read the other mysteries in
this series and enjoyed them, but this one left me sad and depressed. There was so much death in the same family
that it sidetracked the mystery element for me.
In a lot of mysteries, the criminal is discovered and justice is served
and the reader is left with some satisfaction.
This ending did unveil the criminal, but left me feeling
unsatisfied. There was also too much
time spent with the Regency party details with little
action or investigation by Drew to find the culprit. I did like when Drew shared his faith with
Tal as well as Madeline’s reliance on God and encouraging Drew in his God-given
calling. I look forward to the next mystery
in the series and hope the next one is more satisfying for this mystery lover.

My rating is 3 stars.

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